unpatriotic

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Recent Examples of unpatriotic White Christian nationalists oppose multiculturalism, deny systemic inequities, and view DEI reforms as unnecessary or even unpatriotic. Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2025 Finally, one state capital is long overdue for a name update to rid ourselves of an unpatriotic non-American link. Nick Thomas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2025 While attempts to protest his leadership didn’t really get off the ground — some saw them as unpatriotic at a time of national mourning — his popularity nevertheless suffered a huge blow. NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024 Centrists have been denigrated as squishy, weak in the knees, guilty of being sellouts — and worse, unpatriotic. Michael S. Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unpatriotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpatriotic
Adjective
  • But because everyone was technically disloyal during Casa Amor, there wouldn’t have been much to show.
    Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 8 July 2025
  • To then be accused of being disloyal was a bit much.
    Lizzie Hyman, People.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • While their occupation may have created conditions that tested them, the choice to be unfaithful was still deeply personal.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • People who worked on the nighttime emergency schedule were almost 18 times more likely to be unfaithful to their partners than those who worked part-time.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Those voting for it are Sean Elo-Rivera, Jennifer Campbell, Kent Lee, Stephen Whitburn, Vivian Moreno and La Jolla’s own Joe LaCava, who has been an active supporter of this perfidious plan.
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
  • Jake Gyllenhaal is his foil as the perfidious Iago, who goads Othello into unreasoning jealousy with lies about his beloved Desdemona (Molly Osborne).
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2016, a record number of faithless votes were cast.
    Robert Alexander and Anna Dawley, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro are both quite good as part of a team that’s tasked with stealing a secret document, setting the stage for a drama involving gangsters, faithless lovers, and white-collar crooks.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • At least three people were killed in the treacherous flood waters streaming through a mountain village in New Mexico, which also knocked an entire home from its foundations and then swept it away.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025
  • The search has been complicated by treacherous terrain, and the fact that crews are looking for an Army veteran skilled in wilderness survival who had a three-day head start.
    Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • As Daniel Cox has previously outlined, young men haven’t necessarily become more ideologically conservative, but many are politically disaffected and uninterested in traditional party politics.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 30 May 2025
  • Luster follows the thorny misadventures of Edie, a disaffected publishing employee who enters a somewhat kinky affair with Eric, a digital archivist living in New Jersey.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025

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“Unpatriotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpatriotic. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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